One man’s pain is another man’s pleasure – or so the saying goes! Akshay Bhatia is one of the world’s top players at the moment. Coming to the last hole at the PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic both he and Australia's Cam Davis, who was in the Clubhouse on -18, were tied. Bhatia just needed a par on the final hole and after finding the green in regulation it looked highly likely the event was headed for a playoff. Bhatia had not three putted all week and had only recorded one bogey for the tourament, but this wasn’t his day. Bhatia left his birdie putt around one metre short and needed only to sink it to share top spot. However a dramatic lip out handed the tournament to a tearful Cam Davis. It was only Davis’s second PGA Tour win – his first came at the same event three years earlier.

It’s been a tough year for Davis who has struggled for most of the year, however this should set up his next couple of years on Tour and take some pressure off. The US$2.5 million winner’s cheque will certainly help.
Four players shared T2 including Australian Min Woo Lee who too could have been in a playoff with Davis if not for a bogey at the last. He was well positioned to finish on -18, however he overshot the green with his second and then chipped past the hole and off the green with his third before finally recording a bogey to share second place with David Thompson, Aaron Rai and Bhatia.

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Aaron Baddeley was the only other Aussie to make the cut, finish the weekend in second last spot, T72 (-2). Harrison Endycott was the only Aussie that didn’t make the Cut.

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Cam Davis

• Cards final-round 2-under 70 to earn his second Rocket Mortgage Classic title (2021, 2024)
• Captures his second career PGA TOUR title at the age of 29 years, 4 months, 9 days, becoming the first Australian winner on TOUR since Jason Day/2023 CJ CUP Byron Nelson
• First player since Corey Conners (2019, 2023 Valero Texas Open) to earn his first two PGA TOUR victories at the same event
• Becomes the 26th Australian to win multiple PGA TOUR titles since the start of the 1940 season, and the 11th Australian on record (since the start of the 1983 season) to win multiple TOUR titles prior to turning 30 years old
• Becomes the first two-time winner – and remains the lone international winner – of the Rocket Mortgage Classic
• Earns 500 points to move to No. 40 in the FedExCup standings
• Winning score of 18-under 270 ties the highest winning 72-hole score in the six editions of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, equaling his winning score of 18-under 270 from 2021, when he defeated Troy Merritt and Joaquin Niemann in a playoff
• First individual stroke-play event winner since Billy Horschel/2024 Corales Puntacana Championship to come from outside the final group of the final round

Additional Player Notes

• Playing in the final group in the final round for a second consecutive week, 54-hole co-leader Akshay Bhatia (T2/-17) makes a three-putt bogey on the 72nd hole of regulation, the par-4 18th, to fall into his second runner-up finish in the last two seasons (2nd/2023 Puerto Rico Open)
  • Bhatia is the 11th player on record (since the start of the 1983 season) with four top-two finishes on the PGA TOUR prior to turning 23 years old
  • Bhatia entered the final round as the only player in the field without a bogey through 54 holes and made two bogeys in the final round (par-4 third, par-4 18th)
• Min Woo Lee (T2/-17) makes bogey on the 72nd hole of regulation to settle for his second runner-up finish of the season (T2/Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches); his double bogey at the par-5 seventh Sunday was one of only two double bogeys made there in the final round (Andrew Novak), and one of only six double bogeys on No. 7 the entire week
• 54-hole co-leader Aaron Rai (T2/-17) posts a career-high finish in his 85th career start on TOUR (previous career-high finish: T3/2023 RBC Canadian Open), as well as his third top-10 this season (T4/THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson; T7/Texas Children’s Houston Open), and his second top-10 in as many appearances at the Rocket Mortgage Classic (T9/2023)
• Davis Thompson (T2/-17) logs his third career runner-up finish (2nd/2023 American Express; T2/2024 Myrtle Beach Classic), records top-10s in back-to-back starts on TOUR for the first time (T9/2024 U.S. Open), and posts his third top-10 of the 2024 season; Thompson had two top-10s in 30 starts as a TOUR rookie last season
• Cameron Young (T6/-15) records his 18th top-10 since joining the PGA TOUR at the start of the 2021-22 season; he is one of 13 players with at least 18 top-10s in that span, and he is the only such player without a victory
• The only other player without a victory and at least 17 top-10s on TOUR since the start of the 2021-22 season is Tommy Fleetwood (17)
• Rookie Rico Hoey (T6/-15) eagles the par-5 17th for a second consecutive round en route to his first top-10 on TOUR (previous career-high finish: T14/2024 Valero Texas Open)

Luke Clanton (T10/-14), a 20-year-old amateur who recently completed his sophomore year at Florida State University, records the third top-10 by an amateur on TOUR this season (Win/Nick Dunlap/The American Express; T10/Jackson Van Paris/Puerto Rico Open); there were no top-10s finishes by amateurs in the 2022-23 PGA TOUR Season

US Senior Open

Australia’s Richard Green is in sole third place, four shots behind third round leader Hiroyuki Fujita of Japan in the US Senior Open. Play has been suspended and will resume tomorrow morning (US local Time). Cameron Percy is inside the Top 20 (T14) on -4.